Confirming redevelopment of PPG Canalside will go ahead regardless of where the team finish the season – and that ideally they want to move the Fanzone closer to the stadium – Hoyle said it was hugely important to keep the head coach and reward him with a new contract during the last summer.

“I never felt we would lose him, I just had to pay him more! Simple. That’s how the world works,” said Hoyle, in interview with BBC Radio Leeds.

“David is committed to the football club and he always wanted to stay, but we had to make it right for him.

“He is a manager who has performed miracles.

“He has done really well with Huddersfield Town, not because we are a small club because I think we are equal in size to a Watford, bigger than Bournemouth and equal to Cardiff, but we are not an Everton or a Manchster.